Posted on 07/02/2005 9:46:50 AM PDT by wagglebee
On the eve of the G-8 Summit, ex-president Bill Clinton is telling European audiences that the U.S. is stingy with its foreign aid dollars - and that Americans think they contribute more than they actually do.
"In America, for example, we have always been hampered in getting adequate budgets for international assistance by the fact that the American people believe we give much more than we do," he told BBC Radio 4 on Thursday. "They think we give about 3 percent of GDP," the ex-president continued. "They think we give 10-15 percent of the budget. They think we ought to give about 5 percent."
But Clinton claimed: "We don't give anywhere near that. We don't give anywhere near 3 percent but they think we do."
Clinton blamed the GOP Congress and the Bush administration, which pledged $15 billion in aid to Africa in 2003, for being shortsighted when it came to foreign assistance.
"President Bush and the Republicans, when I was president, 100 members of the new Republican Congress after the 94 election did not have passports," he recalled. "They thought all foreign aid was wasted. They did not believe in anything."
He took credit for fostering a different attitude towards foreign aid while he was president.
"By the time I left, we had dramatic consensus across parties for the massive debt relief we did for the Millennium in 2000," he told the BBC.
Clinton said that if the U.S. contributed its fair share, "we can have a whole new paradigm for development assistance from the rich to the poor."
We give more now than when BJ was Rapist-in-Chief, and we give a lot more than we should. We are the world's superpower, not caretaker.
This really wants to make you barf
Bill & Hillary should donate some of the Democratic Party treasury
I bet he bit his lower lip and waggled his thumb when he said this with a tear in his eye. What a jackoff.
The Bent One thinks his frequent sperm donations to every woman he can find (willing or otherwise) are enough.
No, Bill, we believe we give way too much to sorry ingrates and tin horn dictators who waste our kind generosity. FEH!
Ah, you know he has to be in the spotlight. He could not live without that.
"They thought all foreign aid was wasted."
They were and are correct.
"They did not believe in anything."
Not true. They do not believe in wasting money on "foriegn aid".
Clintoon is rolling in dough from his crooked dealings -- let Clintoon write the checks from his own account.
Given the heavy purchases of ingratitude we have already made, I'd say we shouldn't be spending one more cent.
Who gives more than the USA???? He is such an a$$kissing idiot.
Especially when most of it is stolen!
Remember when...ex-presidents knew how to say nothing at all?
That lyin', perjurin', adulteratin', rapin', cheatin', justice-obstructin', waggin'-the-dog, scandal-creatin', commander-in-briefs, dress-stainin', cigar-stuffin' fat-assed, bulbous-nosed piece of shit has NOTHING to say that means ANYTHING to ANYBODY on the planet.
No such traditon exists. Among others, Theodore Roosevelt (who let everyone know how little he thought of Taft and Wilson) and Harry Truman (who did the same for Ike) broke that tradition long ago.
Bill Clinton: Americans Stingy with Foreign Aid
No Bill, unlike you and the Live Ate dimbulbs we've figured out after five wasted decades of hearing about starving ethiopians that the money never goes to the poor and sickly in Africa. It's a wonder anyone is left over there. How are starving people able to muster the energy to procreate so many newer generations of starving babies decade after decade?
All the money goes to their corrupt leaders and assorted anti-christian terrorist cells while the uneducated African population is left hacking each other to bits with machetes and scrambling for tiny morsels of food.
I view Africa as Americas own failed welfare program and housing projects.
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